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“... His name was Franz Kafka, and he quite often went to the movies. Some such statement constitutes both the basis of Kafka Goes to the Movies and its primary impediment: the rock it has to roll up the hill. According to Max Brod, his lifelong friend and first editor and biographer, Kafka loved the movies; at times, Brod reported, he would talk about little else ...”

“... away and became an Independent. None, however, acquitted herself with greater distinction than Susan Isaacs, an educational psychologist and former principal of the Malting School in Cambridge. Isaacs not only wrote the first, and pivotal, Kleinian position paper, ‘The Nature and Function of Phantasy’, but showed throughout an exemplary absence of ...”

“... to it, in George Douglas Brown’s House with the Green Shutters (1901) or John MacDougall Hay’s Gillespie (1914). Kinraddie, ‘the new minister’ proclaims at the end of the prelude to Sunset Song, ‘was the Scots countryside itself, fathered between a kailyard and a bonny briar bush in the lee of a house with green shutters’.For its ...”